Device for applying toilet powder.



C. E. HEIL.

DEVICE FOR APPLYING TOILET POWDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 18, 1912.

Patented Oct. 29, 1912.

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relatively stationary head 1) (sec F CHARLES E. HEIL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

DEVICE FOR APPLYING TOILET POWDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 29, 191 2.

Application filed January 18, 1912. Serial No. 671,785.

To all (C/1.0M, it may con ern Be it known that l. CHARLES E. Hem, a citizen of the United States of America. residing at Cle eland. in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Applying; Toilet Powder; and I hereby declare the following to be a full. clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for applying toilet-powder and pertains more especially to a device of the character indicated in which a flexible sheet of material capable of carrying toilet-powder is wound on a roller when not in use and adapted to be unwound from said roller for use.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a dust-guard instrumental in excluding dust from said sheet when the latter is wound on ;-aid roller, to inexpensively and conveniently attach said sheet to the rollerpto render said roller suitable for use as a receptacle for a case employed in holding toilet-powder, and to render the device simple and durable in construction and convenient.

With this object in view, and to the end of attaining other advantages hereinafter ap tnring. this invention consists in certain tenures of constrrction, and combinations ai.d arrangeu'ient of parts, hereinafter described. pointed out in the claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In said drawings, Figure l is a side view of my ii; proved device for applying toiletpowder. Portions are broken away in this figure to more clearly show the construction. a central longitudinal section on line Fig. 1, locking in the direction indicated by the arrow. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line 3--- Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow. Fig. 4 is a transverse section corresponding with Fig. 3, except that. in Fig. 4- the dust-guard is shown in a dill'erent position than in Fig.

liet errine to Filiil drawings. indicates a roller which is provided at one end with a heaci- (I employed in rotating; the roller. Said roller has b aring at its other end in a can is provided at the outer end of said headand externally with a laterally and outwardly projecting annular flange 5 overlapping the outer end face of said head and instrumental in preventing displacement of the roller endwise inwardly from said head. The head B forms a member of a case which comprises a tubular shell which is circular in cross-section. The shell 7 surrounds and is concentric relative to the roller. The shell 0 is large enough diametrically or transversely to form an annular chamber 6 around the roller. The shell C embraces and is attached to the head B and extends from said head to the head a and engages an annular recess 7 with which said last-mentioned head (see Fig. 2) is provided at its inner end face, which recess is concentric relative to the roller. The shell C atlords bearing therefore to the head a. The shell C has a slot 8 which extends longitudinally of said shell.

A flexible sheet D of nniteriah such, for instance, as chatnois, capable of carryii'ie toilet-powder, is wound on the roller and removably attached to the roller. Preterably the sheet D is provided at its inner end (see F1 1 and 2) with two tongues or members 10 projecting froin opposite side edges respectively of said sheet. Eyes 12 are stitched or otherwise secured to said projecting members 10 and engage hooks, or projecting members 13 formed on and pretcrably struck outwardly from the roller. The sheet D is not as wide as the slot H is long, and said slotv is wide enough to permit: said sheet to pass therethrough. The sheet D is provided at its outer end and centrally between its side edges with a thumb-andfinger piece (Z which is thick enough or large enough in dimensions to prevent it passing through the slot 8 and therefore projects outwardly from said slot upon winding said sheet on the roller.

A tubular dust-guard which onsists preferably of a total tube E which is circular in crosssection, is rotatalrily mounted and has bearing therefore on the shell "ihttube E is concentric relatire to the roller. The tube E extends cudwise ol, th shell (7 from a point in proximity to the head B to a point in close proximity to the head 1/ of the roller. The tube E has a slot l t extending lt'nigitu 'liually of said tube and correspoiuliue in length to the length oi. the slot 8. The tube E in the position shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 has its slot 14. in registry lit) A ml

with the slot 3. The slot 14: is preferably wide enough to permit the thumb-and-finger piece (Z to pass therethrough. it will be observed therefore that the slot 1st has the dimensions required to permit the passage therethrough of the sheet l) its thumband-finger piece (Z. The tube E is provided centrally between the side edges of the sheet D with an outward bulge c which extends circumferentially of said tube and forms a recess 15 internally of the bulging portion a of said tube, which recess extends therefore circumferentially of the shell C and arranged to receive the thuinb and-finger piece (Z of the sheet- D. Said bulging portion of the tube E therefore accommodates thelocation of said thumb-and-iinger piece during the shifting of said. tube circuinferentially of the shell C to bring the slot 14 into or" out of registry with the slot 8. For instance, Fig. a shows the tube or dust-guard E rotated into a position in which. its slot 14 is out of registry with the slot 8 and said dust-guard covers the last-mentioned slot, but of course said dust-guard has to be shifted circuniferentially of the shelt Canto a position in which the slot 14: registers with the slot 8, as shown in Figs. 1., 2, and 3, pre

' paratory to unwinding the sheet D from the roller. The slot 14 is preferably enlarged in width, as at 16, as shown in Figs. 3 and l, at the outwardlybulging portion 6 of the dust-guard, to afford convenient access to the thumb-and-finger piece d of the sheet D when said dustgnard is in the position shown in Figs. 1, i, and 3. The dust guard E is loosely interposed between the head a of the roller and a cap H which is removably mounted on the shell C where said shell embraces the head B. The roller is tubular from the flanged end of the roller a suitable distance toward the other end of the roller to form a receptacle for a case G which is inserted endwise into the roller at the flanged end of the roller and is removable from the roller. The case G is provided with a suitably applied cap 9 and adapted to hold a supply of toilet-powder.

The cap H conceals the adjacent end of the roller and the adjacent end of the case Gr, and said cap is large enough in dimensions to permit the reception within the outer end-portion of the cap,-that is, between the case G and the outer end of the cap,of a cup-shaped receptacle K adapted maaevs to hold a supply of toilet-powder, which receptacle is shown contained within the outer end-portion of said cap andhas its bottom 7c perforated, as at 17. lhe receptacle K is provided centrally with an endwise shiftable pin L which extends through the bottom la and is provided with two heads 18 and 20 formed on opposite ends respectively of the pin and externally and internally respectively of said receptacle. The head 18 servos as a handle instrumental in withdrawing the receptacle K from the cap H upon the removal of said cap from the shell C, and the head :20 prevents disconnection of the pin L from said receptacle in withdrawing said receptacle through the medium of said pin from within said cap upon said removal of the cap.

What I claim is:--

In a device for applying toilet-powder, the combination, with a roller, a case comprising a. shell which extends longitudinally of the roller and is concentric relative to the roller, which shell is enough larger transversely than the roller to form a. chamber around the roller and has a slot extending longitudinally'of the shell, and a flexible sheet of material. capable of carrying toiletpowder and connected to the' roller and adapted to be wound on and unwound from the roller through said slot, which sheet is provided at its outer end with a thumb and-finger piece arranged centrally between the sideedges of the sheet and projecting outwardly from said slot when the sheet has been wound on the roller, of a dust-guard mounted on and extending longitudinally of the aforesaid shell, which dust-guard has a slot extending longitudinally of the dust-guard and is shiftable circumferensaid thumb-and-finger piece.

In testimony whereof, I sign the foregoing specificatlon, in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES E. HEIL.

' Vv itnesses B. C. BROWN, N. MoDoN NELL.

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